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Be it known that I, LEWIS S. CHASE, of the city of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful improvement on Frames for Advertising and other purposes, in cars, stages, steamboats, hotels, Sec.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a clear, full, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and marks thereon, which said drawings form part of this specification and represent my improvement applied to a frame of two panels- Figure 1 being a front View thereof.

Figure 2, a view by vertical section on a line drawn just within the middle Vertical bar; and

Figure 3, a view of the detachable bar separated from the frame.

In each of these figures, where like parts are shown, like marks and letters are used to indicate the parts.

My invention is'ntended for use in cars, stagessteamboats, hotels, and other places, for advertising or other purposes. The frame maybe made of wood, iron or other metal, or of any material suitable for the purpose, and may be composed of one single frame or panel of any size, or of several panels. The drawings show 'a frame of horizontal bars, a, and vertical bars, b, with 'a central bar, c, the frame being one of two panels. The central bar c, with the screw buttons of it, in fig. 1, are indicated by red lines. In the horizontal bars are grooves, as indicated by the section, iig. 2, theA upper groovebeing greater or deeper than the lower. In this ligure of the three strata or layers of material shown, the inner one is a plate of tin, the middle one a packing, and the outer a plate of glass. Between the packing and the glass the card, or picture, or advertisement may be laced, or the aekinfr or the metal late ma v not be used as ma be referred. There will be a sufficient P P o P Y a Y P a space left between the ends of the glass plates to .allow of the one being slid along a short distance, and the groove in the upper bar be suiciently deep to allow of the plate 4being shoved up so that its lower odge can be drawn over the edge of the lower bar, and thus be readily taken out. The screw buttons d can easily be unscrewedv. By unscrewing these buttons of the middle bar c, of this frame, or one of the buttons only, the bar c can be taken out, and then the glass be moved and the card or advertisement be removed and another put in its place if desired. The cards or plates to' be inserted in the frame can be easily put in or taken ont without unfastening, taking down, or disturbing the frame, which makes the frame facev opening, and other means than those here named for fastening maybe used. When the frame is made of one panel only, the bar at one of the ends can be made and attached by the buttons as here recited, in the attaching of the central or middle bar c, and when the frame is made up of several panels, such only of the vertical bars will be thus constructcd and attached as may be necessary to allow of the movement of the glass and card, as herein described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The frame for advertising and other purposes, constructed with the bars removable or detachable, by unscrewing the button, and the other bars with grooves, for allowing the glass to be removed, and arranged substantially as herein recited.

- LEWIS S. CHASE.

Witnesses:

A. C. Ross, J. W. SwEENnr. 

